“We had flown into Milano three days earlier and drove to the venue in a rental car. It was an experience that no one will forget and will be a stepping stone in each one of these sailors sailing careers, for sure. We got respectable results, we acted well as a team, and we all wore our SA uniform with pride throughout the regatta. “At the end of the day, we did a good job of representing SA Sailing and SA Optimist sailing. ” Read More Mark Sadler (Team Coach) Nicola, Elisa, Theo, Sean & Mark. The Team Manager position is typically a parental role, and because my daughter was competing in the event it was decided that I should take over. “I stepped in this role quite late in the programme due to the fact that the previously appointed manager contracted Covid and had to step down. Mark Sadler (Coach), Elisa Falcon, Sean Kavanagh, Theo Scheder-Bieschen, Nicola Sadler, Stefan Falcon (Manager). So last day today to see what we can do against an extremely tough fleet. Robert finished 36th and 40th moving to 237th overall and Aydin finished 59th and 58th staying in 275th. So any small mistakes and you lose 10 places in the blink of an eye. The racing is extremely close with the fleet all really close rounding marks. Luckily the staff was very helpful and extremely quick in getting Robbie to the start on time for the first race. So it was a mad rush to send request forms off and change sails again. We had a second failure on Robert’s sail this time but with the same problem with the sprit pulling out. We had a late start again with the wind only picking from 14.00. Will need to try and pull up some places in the next few days. We still believe he was unlucky as he didn’t seem to think he was over the line but the race committee has the better perspective. Aydin placed 58th in race 7 and unfortunately 27 sailors were BFD on race 8 and he was one of them. Robert had a great day in race 7 he got a 13th place and in race 8 he placed 17th. The first race only started around 14.30 as we had to wait for the breeze to come in. Robert and Aydin we put into the emerald fleet. So day 4 of racing went well for the most part.
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